I'm no Middle East expert, but in 2002 and 2003 I was, along with many other non-experts and consummate experts alike, writing hysterically about the ghastly headlines and ledes we inescapably would be reading once the immense folly of Bush's coming war was over:
Explosions Rock Baghdad Amid Iraqi Political Crisis
A wave of coordinated explosions ripped across Baghdad early on Thursday ... jolting a country already unsettled by a deepening political crisis.
A few days ago, President Obama said that "history will judge" the wisdom of our Iraq invasion. But history already did, the "will" is superfluous, and this is one "We told you so" in which there is no self-satisfaction whatsoever to be had.